https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/6ed5e2bf11ba41cf0fb56c35
Modified Files:
src/doors/syncconquer/PROVENANCE.md src/doors/syncconquer/vanilla/tiberiandawn/intro.cpp
Log Message:
syncdawn: the side-pick briefings were the FMV the audio gate missed

On a terminal that cannot play audio the door skips cutscenes: a silent
FMV is a poor experience and a lot of bandwidth. Every movie obeyed that
except one -- starting a new game and picking a side played a full-motion briefing anyway.

The gate lives in Play_Movie(), which is the chokepoint for cutscenes but
not for these two: Choose_Side() plays the scenario-1 briefings with
VQA_Play() directly, so the gate never saw them. Reported against GDI,
but both sides go through the same code and behave the same way; GDI is
just the side usually picked.

Suppression now happens ahead of the GOOD/BAD split, closing and freeing
both handles without playing either. The movies are still opened above
it deliberately -- the side-pick screen's interpolated palettes are read
out of those same files, so skipping the open would break the screen that
leads into the briefing.

Red Alert has no equivalent: it plays every cutscene through Play_Movie()
and was already covered.

Verified both directions on a no-audio client: with the default gate the
pick goes straight to the mission, and with [game] movies = true the
briefing still plays.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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